Ynestra King

Feminist Theorist

Ynestra King is a feminist teacher, writer and oral historian. She is an ecofeminist theorist, and a founder of Women and Life on Earth and the feminist anti-militarist movement, as well as the Committee on Women, Population and Environment. Her current work is on disability narratives and body politics, focusing particularly on women and disability. She is also at work on a memoir tentatively entitled Falling. She was previously visiting Scholar at the Barnard Center for Research on Women.